One of the founders of modern sociology, Karl Marx, was also a critic of modern capitalism. Marx understood capitalism as a system of commodity production, or production for the market, through wage labour. Marx wrote that all economic systems are also social systems.Each mode of production consists of particular relations of production, which in turn give rise to a specific class structure.

Who developed the concept of Capital beyond the realm of Economics?

Pierre Bourdieu Karl Marx Adam Smith Max Weber

Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu described control over resources like capital, and he developed it from the economic realm to social and cultural.